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Astrologer Greenstone Lobo has delivered a bold prediction up of the mouth-watering Super 8s clash betwixt India and West Indies astatine the iconic Eden Gardens connected Sunday. The equation is simple: victor advances to the semifinals, loser goes home.
With a semi-final spot connected the line, Lobo weighed successful connected planetary patterns, unit dynamics, and what the stars suggest for India successful this virtual knockout.“Panic buttons person been pressed, radical person been frantically calling maine oregon messaging maine asking, ‘Will India triumph the World Cup? Forget astir winning the World Cup, tin we adjacent scope the semi-finals?’ Lobo told TimesofIndia.com.
India vs West Indies: Greenstone Lobo predicts destiny of do-or-die World Cup clash
He acknowledged the spot of the West Indies but stressed that planetary alignments favour India.
“West Indies is not a slouch, it's a precise very almighty team, but we are looking astatine the information that from the spot of 1992 to 1994, determination tin beryllium lone 1 squad who tin bash truly well. We person 3 teams: Pakistan, South Africa, and the West Indies captain. South Africa is intelligibly ahead, truthful Pakistan and West Indies are not going to airs that overmuch of a problem. The squad is going to falter against India.”India heads into this do-or-die clash aft a commanding 72-run triumph implicit Zimbabwe astatine the MA Chidambaram Stadium successful Chennai.
With South Africa already done to the semifinals, each eyes present crook to Kolkata, wherever the victor volition look England successful the semis.Lobo besides highlighted the hidden opportunities for India.

“Even though we mislaid [against South Africa] and our openers person not done well, it is bully for India. Some players who person not been portion of the playing XI, similar Sanju Samson, tin present measurement in. Adding Samson tin beryllium a precise large happening due to the fact that helium adds a batch of musculus and was calved successful 1994, which astrologically is favorable.”The Eden Gardens transportation promises a high-scoring spectacle. Temperatures successful Kolkata are expected to hover betwixt 26°C and 31°C, with wide skies ensuring uninterrupted play. But India’s nett tally complaint (-0.100) is simply a concern. The West Indies, boosted by a monolithic 101-run triumph implicit Zimbabwe, person a beardown +1.791 NRR.In the improbable lawsuit of rainfall washing retired the match, some teams would gain 1 constituent each. India’s inferior NRR would spot them eliminated, portion West Indies would beforehand to the semifinals.
This adds adjacent much value to the do-or-die quality of Sunday’s clash.

Both India and West Indies person 1 triumph from 2 Super 8 matches, making this efficaciously a knockout. As Lobo summarised, “The squad has to permission everything connected the park, execute successful each departments, and this volition springiness India the champion accidental to triumph the game. Whatever has happened successful erstwhile matches is simply a blessing successful disguise — the firepower successful the squad volition travel to the fore, and India is acceptable to prevail.”Sunday’s clash astatine Eden Gardens is not conscionable a crippled — it is simply a virtual quarterfinal betwixt India and West Indies.
